Monthly Archives: September 2011

I have had Clive Barker’s Abarat series on my To Read list for the longest time but for one reason or another, never got around to starting it. While it is probably blasphemous to read it on the Kindle rather than … Continue reading →

Thank goodness for another highly creative, thought-provoking, fascinating, and infinitely readable novel by China Mieville. This is first and foremost a murder mystery. But it is the setting, two cities, Besźe and Ul Qoma, co-existing in the same geographical … Continue reading →

Since they recently came out on Kindle, I’ve been buying and re-reading the earlier Kate Shugak novels by Dana Stabenow, one of my favorite writers. Play with Fire is a rather disturbing mixture of mushrooms, fire, and fanaticism. This was the … Continue reading →

Once I began reading this novel I could not put it down. Ki Longfellow writes extremely well and the haunting tone with which the protagonist tells her story remained with me long after I finally finished. A ghost story? A … Continue reading →

Every now and then I read an autobiography. Cybill Shepherd’s version of her life came out on Kindle as a freebie and what the heck, I loved Moonlighting and always thought she was an amazing woman for more then just … Continue reading →